Positive thoughts from a Christian Perspective
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Weeds
It happens every spring, intruders invade my lawn. Hardy weeds with sinister names like, Bullnettle and Prickly Lettuce, and ones with cute names, like Chickweed and Goosegrass, try to choke out my beautiful Bermuda. Enter, the Weed Sheriff. That’s me. I stop the trespassers before they go to seed and make those little burrs that…
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More Feedback | Short Story
Ronald, a would-be writer, receives a scathing rejection letter from a magazine editor. His submission is riddled with bad grammar and there’s little to no narrative arc. It’s barely a story at all. The critic claims that a chimp with a piece of chalk could write better flash fiction. Tears sting the aspiring wordsmith’s eyes,…
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An Anchor for the Soul
It’s state testing time in many schools across the United States, and students are feeling the stress. Last week? I proctored (observed) for a fourth-grade classroom where you could feel the tension in the air. After the test administrator (teacher) finished reading from a pretest script, he asked his students if they had any questions.…
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Creating Sparks of Love Across Generations
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is made complete in us. 1 John 4:11-12 (NIV) My wife and I sang in a recent choir concert where the oldest…
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The Unspoken Promise: Navigating the Messy Middle
In 1914, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica on foot. However, his ship, Endurance, became trapped and crushed by sea ice as it slowly sank. He and his crew were stranded for nearly two years! At some point, during their ordeal, everyone’s goal had to change. They were no longer explorers but…
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Cardboard Certainty
One of the joys of being an educational administrator in an elementary school is eating lunch with the students. Whenever my schedule allows, I sit at a back table in the cafeteria with a small group of kids and visit with them as we eat. One day last week when lunch was over, a student…
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